Sentence examples for for stage action from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stein said he had been working on the production over the previous year, completing, with his collaborators, complicated sets for the whole opera, several choreographed sections, more than 600 costumes and his ideas for stage action.

When Duncan lived in L.A. in the '70s, he was known for staging actions that were (to put it delicately) abject and raw, such as shooting at a pair of friends with a pistol loaded with blanks.

Patrizia Ciofi and Angelika Kirchschlager, as Susanna and Cherubino, both sing with a delightfully wide range of inflections, which create a kind of stage action for the ears.

This has meant that the audience wears virtual reality headgear that creates graphical environments for live stage action.

Against such directorial hubris -- the substitution of high-minded staginess for playable stage action -- the cast is relegated to a no-win place.

Finally, the jazz score, by Terry Davies, is wonderful: sometimes ruminative and smoky in that sixties way, but elsewhere trumpetingly dramatic and thus a firm support for the stage action.

The piece begins with a knee play, Wilson's word for the brief front of stage actions that take place while scenery is being switched.

For the most part, spirited stage action sufficiently compensated for technical shortcomings during this initial farewell to one of the Met's most popular productions, scheduled to be retired after this season.

In an apparent attempt to compensate for the lack of cogent stage action, dancers periodically offer diversion in the form of stylized fighting.

He was also asked about a play he had directed for Stage for Action, a leftist theater group.

Mr. Sonnenfeld has a knack for staging the action right in the center of the camera frame -- the filmmaker's version of using boldface and italicizing.